Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Miss Saigon Performance Schedule


Pioneer Theatre Company


We got Teague's performance schedule of Miss Saigon if any of you are interested in seeing him. His counterpart is a little girl named Victoria, they are alternating performances. There is a possibility of the show being extended a week.

Monday - Thursday shows begin at 7:30

Friday and Saturday shows begin at 8:00

Saturday Matinees begin at 2:00

SCHEDULE

Friday, May 1

Saturday, May 2 Evening

Tuesday, May 5

Wednesday, May 6

Friday, May 8

Saturday, May 9 Evening

Tuesday, May 12

Thursday, May 14

Saturday, May 16 Matinee


Also, please be aware of the Content Advisory

A musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg. Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg. Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Alain Boublil.
May 1 through May 16, 2009

SYNOPSIS: The creators of Les Misérables have taken the plot of the opera Madame Butterfly and set it in the closing days of the Vietnam War. The star-crossed lovers are Chris, an American serviceman, and Kim, a Vietnamese girl with whom Chris falls in love. The brief love affair is torn apart by the war, leaving Kim with a son by Chris. Chris, thinking Kim dead, returns to America and marries Ellen. When he learns that Kim is alive and has a son by him, he and Ellen return to Vietnam as the war reaches its final calamitous days. Chris and Kim find each other, but they are helpless to prevent the inevitable tragedy that the war and circumstances bring down on them.

LANGUAGE: Miss Saigon includes a significant amount of vulgar language, including one use of the four letter Anglo Saxon obscenity and a fair amount of sexual and racial invective.

The language includes "fuck," (once), "screw" (several times), "ass," "son-of-a-bitch," "bullshit," "chinks," "Jesus," "shit," (several times), "whore," (several times), "crap," "hell," "bastard," "prick," and "bitch."

SMOKING AND DRINKING: Scenes occur in Saigon bars in which smoking and drinking occur.

SEX: The Engineer, one of the plays' major characters, is a pimp. Kim has been brought to Saigon from her village to become a prostitute, but meets and falls in love with Chris on her first night there. Several major scenes, including the opening scene, take place in a Saigon strip club. In the
Broadway and London productions, the prostitutes at the strip club were in g-strings and pasties. For this production, the girls will be in bikinis or similar clothing, but there will be no mistaking the girl's occupations as prostitutes servicing American soldiers or the Engineer's role as their pimp.

VIOLENCE: The Vietnam war is everywhere evident in the play's atmosphere. The evacuation by helicopter of the American embassy is one of the play's climactic scenes. In despair over her situation, Kim (like Madame Butterfly) ultimately kills herself.

FOR WHICH AUDIENCES?: Miss Saigon is suitable for adult audience members who will not be offended by the play's setting or its strong language. Conservative audience members will likely be discomforted by these elements, although the play does achieve the tragic grandeur of the opera upon which it is based. Teenagers should attend at a parent's discretion. The play is not suitable for pre-teens.

RATING: If it were a movie, Miss Saigon would receive a strong "PG-13" rating for language and strong thematic elements.


1 comments:

Steph said...

I would LOVE to go and see this! I will try my hardest!